To face climate change is, in part, to grapple with a narrowing range of possible futures. Thus, we find that reproduction itself is up for interrogation, reimagination, and revision. This panel explores precisely these shifts in thought by inviting papers that consider environmental crisis through the lens of sex and gender studies. As invoked by the panel’s title, the trope of Mother Nature exemplifies the powerful role that gender has historically played in environmental cultures. And although Mother Nature has undergone successive waves of critique, human norms of gender and sexuality continue to inflect ecological discourse.

The Victorians Institute Journal is still accepting submissions for Volume 52, which is expected to be published in 2025. We accept manuscripts between 7k-9k words on any aspect of Victorian and Edwardian literature, art, and culture.

For complete submission instructions and to upload your manuscript for consideration, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/vij and follow the steps given by the online system.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at victoriansinstitutejournal@gmail.com

Topic:Expressivity, Bodies and Language in the Twenty-First Century

Venue: University of Montpellier – Paul Valéry, France

Date: 20-21 November 2025

Conference organizers: Sandrine Sorlin (University of Montpellier – Paul-Valéry /IUF - EMMA) and Julie Neveux (Sorbonne University - CeLiSo)

Adaptation, Restoration, Rebirth

Association of Adaptation Studies Conference

1-4 June 2025, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Türkiye

Keynotes (CONFIRMED):

• Dr. Ahmet Gürata, Department of Cinema and Digital Media, İzmir University of Economics, Türkiye

• Dr. Iain Robert Smith, Department of Film Studies, King’s College London, UK

On his way to the Temple of the Grail Knights, Parsifal says: I move only a little, yet already I seem to have gone far. The all-knowing Gurnemanz replies: You see, my son, here time turns into space. - Wagner’s “Parsifal”

The Department of Religions and Cultures at Concordia University is pleased to announce the 30th Annual Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference (AGIC). In part commemorating AGIC’s 30th year of existence and coinciding with Concordia University’s 50th anniversary, we invite both academic and creative submissions (research papers, short films, visual arts/media, short stories, poems, etc.) that engage with this year’s theme,“Journeying”. 

INTERDISCIPLINARY; COMPARATIVE; GRADUATE - PROFESSIONAL DEVLOPMENT

Graduate students are invited to present on Dress and Fashion of Baroque Spain at the Boca Raton Museum of Art on March 27, 2025. The conference will be held in the Museum’s Wolgin Education Center, 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton, FL 33432.

The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship was named after the widely influential Yale professor and longtime RSVP Board member and Vice President, Linda Peterson. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is to support one scholar for four full-time months to enable him or her to conduct a research project on the British periodical and newspaper press of the long nineteenth century. It was created with funds from a generous bequest to RSVP by the late Eileen Curran, pioneering researcher and Emerita Professor of English at Colby College.

Within Cli-Fi, Anthropocene Literature, Speculative Futurism, and visual cultures of the Anthropocene, increasing attention and sympathy have been given to the non-humans in narratives of climate crisis. From films like 20th Century Fox’s Planet of the Apes reboot to texts such as Ted Chaing’s Parrots of The Great Silence, The Strange Bird of Jeff VanderMeer’s same-named Novella, and the Elk-Headed Woman of Stephen Graham Jones’ The Only Good Indians, to visual works like Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s The Substitute, Animal perspectives have never been more prevalent in narratives of human-driven climate catastrophe.

Call for Proposals

Masculinities and Men’s Studies

(formerly known as Men and Men’s Studies)

National Popular/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) Conference

 April 16-19, 2025

New Orleans, LA

Proposals on any aspect of masculinities and/or men’s studies are welcome; however, the following topics are of particular interest:

The Saul Bellow Society will host one session at the American Literature Association Annual Conference in Boston, on May 21-24, 2025. Proposals are welcome for paper presentations of 15-20 minutes in length concerning any aspect of Saul Bellow's work or life, including comparisons with other authors.  We welcome proposals from graduate students, newer scholars, independent scholars, and established scholars alike.

Call for Papers

Proposals due Monday, December 2, 2024

Asian Cinemas Encounter the Cold War

Friday, March 28, 2025 – Saturday, March 29, 2025

FedEx Global Education Center, UNC-Chapel Hill

Call for Papers

The Good Life beyond Optimism and Pessimism: 

Philosophy –– Ideology –– Affective Materialities

International Conference 

University of Augsburg, 9-11 October 2025

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Joshua Foa Dienstag (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Katrin Röder (TU Dortmund)

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

#IFM2025 Resonances Conference

June 10-13, 2025, via Zoom

The 7th Interactive Film and Media Annual Conference invites you to engage with the theme "Resonances," exploring how media fosters deep, meaningful connections in our daily lives. This year’s conference delves into how personal and communal experiences shape our interactions and understanding of the world. We encourage submissions that critically engage with the theme and its subtopics, including:

• Response: How do we form thoughtful responses to crises in an unstable world?

Call for paper for a Special issue of Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies

Educators in Popular Culture: Educational Settings as Sites of Intersectional Struggle

Special Issue Editors: Jennifer Esposito and Tanja Burkhard

Popular culture is an educative space and, as such, we learn about ourselves and others

through our engagement with popular culture forms (Edwards & Esposito, 2020).

Expressions of popular culture that highlight educational settings, specifically schools and